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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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line-height: 110%;">OPLIN 4Cast #219: E-book
lending (personal)</span><br>
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alt="" height="113" width="125"></a>It's a
safe assumption that most of our readers have
heard of the recent move by Harper Collins to
restrict the lending of their e-books by
libraries; the news lit up Twitter and other news
channels at the end of last week. If you need a
reminder of what's going on, we recommend the
article from the <a
href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/a-limit-on-lending-e-books/">New
York Times</a> and/or <a
href="http://atzberger.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-overdrive-drm-terms-this-message.html">Joe
Atzberger's blog</a> post. In our blog post, we
thought it might be interesting to look at the
current state of person-to-person e-book lending.
After all, many of the earliest public libraries
in this country had their beginnings as
interpersonal book-lending groups before they
became more formally organized. (Of course, these
days the groups are likely to be Internet
"friends," rather than neighbors.) Perhaps we can
find some clues to successful e-book lending
models by looking at e-book clubs. Or perhaps
they're just having the same problems that are
plaguing libraries. </p>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_kindle_lending_club_matches_e-book_borrowers_a.php">New
Kindle lending club matches e-book borrowers
and lenders</a> (ReadWriteWeb/Audrey Watters)
"The Kindle Lending Club is the brainchild of
Catherine MacDonald, who said that when she
heard Amazon announce on December 30 that it was
finally adding a <a
href="/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_kindle_now_lets_you_loan_your_e-books_sorta.php/">lending
option for Kindle</a>, she decided to set up a
Facebook group—a way to help people find others
who were willing to share their e-books. But as
interest in the group exploded, MacDonald
realized that Facebook just didn't offer the
scalability needed for such an undertaking. 'I
had no idea how viral the idea was,' she says."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2011/02/e-book-lending-clubs.html">E-book
lending clubs</a> (ALA TechSource/Tom Peters)
"What I find fascinating about these eBook
lending clubs is that they realized that, once
Barnes & Noble and Amazon enabled the
lending of etexts, a nascent market had been
born. However, it was an inefficient,
disorganized market because, if I own a lendable
Kindle edition, I have no efficient way to lend
that etext to someone else who wants to read it,
unless I just happen to know a family member,
friend, or colleague who might be interested in
reading one of my Kindle editions."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://librarianbyday.net/2011/01/26/friends-romans-countrymen-lend-me-your-ebooks/">Friends,
Romans, countrymen lend me your ebooks</a>
(Librarian by Day/Bobbi L. Newman) "First let me
state that I think the lending rules on the
Kindle and Nook are complete rubbish. I mean
really the selection is very limited and you can
only lend an item one time and for only 14
days."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.pafa.net/archives/2748">Kindle
& Nook book lending</a>
(pafa.net/pollyalida) "While I love the idea of
being able to loan the few books I've purchased,
the restriction on loaning a title only once
will turn me into more of a hoarder than a
lender. If I'm going to loan a title that I
really enjoyed, I want to loan it to a friend, a
good friend. And not just any good friend, but
that one very good friend who will love the book
the most. And the one who can get through it in
the limited 14 days. Don't bother loaning me
anything, I'm a slow reader."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Club
fact (kinda):</em></strong></small><br>
</p>
<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Several
people have posted lists of e-book lending groups,
but the Tom Peters blog post cited above is the
most current and (if you include the comments)
most complete that we found. </div>
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